Word: tortugas
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...merchant. As Conchita Supervia, Mrs. Rubenstein was in Chicago to sing Carmen with the Civic Opera Company. The turtle was her talisman.* Never before had she found one sturdy enough to weather touring. She had always depended on a little silver turtle, the insignia of the Orden de la Tortuga of which ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the late Dictator Primo de Rivera were charter members. The grandfather turtle (age 14) had been given her when she landed in Manhattan by Grandmother Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Tenor Beniamino Gigli. So long as it lived she would...